The Healing Tao was founded by Master Mantak Chia. For more than 40-years he has taught students around the world, written books and is one of the most significant teachers in sharing Taoist philosophy, qi gong, meditation, alchemy and healing. The Healing Tao includes a wide range of practices.It is with great pleasure I am hosting Master Chia again in Los Angeles. I hope you will enjoy us for the workshops. If you have any questions please contact me. I teach Healing Tao classes and am a senior healing tao instructor.
If you have any questions please contact me.
Master Mantak Chia
Fusion of the Five Elements 1
& Intro to Chinese Astrology & Healing
(Alchemy and Astrology)
Teacher: Master Mantak Chia
Prerequisite: Healing Tao & Qi Gong Basics
May 7-8, Monday-Tuesday, 9:30-5:30pm
14-CEUs approved
Location:
12304 Santa Monica, West Los Angeles, Ca. 90025
Room 115
Price: $295
Both locations will be in the Santa Monica area.
The closest hotel is:
2815 Santa Monica Blvd.
90404, Santa Monica.
Phone: (310) 828-5517
Fax: (310) 829-6084
The hotel is about a 15-20 easy minute walk or 5-minute car ride to the workshop locations. Location information will be here soon. The locations will be in the area of Wishire and Santa Monica Blvd, in the area of 18th street and Wilshire and SM BLVD and Bundy Blvd. There will be a location for the weekend and for Monday-Tuesday.
Afforable Hotel within 5-10-minutes in car:
Days Inn Santa Monica/Los Angeles
3007 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica Blvd & Stanford, Santa Monica, CA 90404 US
Phone: 1-310-829-6333
http://www.smdaysinn.com/
The Ambrose
Nice hotel, a hidden gem. In walking distance for the weekend class and 5-10 minutes to the Monday-Tuesday workshop in a car.
Ask for the corporate rate: $195 plus tax
http://www.ambrosehotel.com/
1255 20th street, at Arizona, SM, Ca. 90404
310 315 1555
Parking:
Below is some parking information, it is also on my website. There is free parking close to the workshop and paid parking ($15 per day) in the adjacent parking lot.
Saturday and Sunday.
Paid Parking:
Behind the workshop location is paid parking. It costs $15 per day and you can enter the lot from 19 Street.
Free Parking:
The workshop location is on Wilshire Blvd and two blocks North is Washington ave. On Saturday, there is FREE parking north of Washington ave all day. Please check the signs for parking rules. The location is on Wilshire Blvd, stay on the same side of the street and go two streets north, which is California and then Washington ave. Do not cross the street from the workshop location, this is going South.
On Sunday there is Free Parking on the surrounding streets. Please check the parking sign for the rules.
Monday and Tuesday Workshop. There is free parking on the streets around the workshop location.
Class Descriptions
Six Healing Sounds
The Six Healing Sounds is a form of medical chi kung. It is a practice that combines specific sounds with specialized movements. This special form of chi kung serves to balance and regulate the temperature of your body by releasing trapped cold or heat, creating perfect 'weather' inside.
This sitting chi kung involves simple arm movements synchronized with the breath and meditation to relieve stress, cool the inner organs, and cultivate tranquility. With regular practice it is especially energizing the body and spirit. Six Healing Sounds chi kung isuseful for anyone in any stage of health or healing.
The Six Healing Sounds are easy to learn and joyful to practice. They are part of the ancient and often overlooked science of Traditional Chinese Medicine. For centuries they have been used for detoxifying, strengthening, and regenerating the internal organs. The healing of the internal organs has a positive effect on physical health, emotional stability and spiritual unfoldment.
Inner Smile
Easy, profound, life-changing Taoist natural meditation.
The Taoist Inner Smile meditation is an effortless and simple yet profound method of coming to peace with oneself and the world. It is a learned skill that taps into our natural ability to smile normally, outwardly, but allows us instead to focus our smile’s intent inwardly to embrace and liberate our shadow side, our pain and struggle hiding within the physical body. The Inner Smile is the soul's heartfelt embrace of our body-mind.
The technique teaches us how to systematically “smile” into our deep qi channels, bones, organs and brain cells. It can radically enhance our internal energy flow, and permits us to find unconscious blocks and dissolve them. Come learn one of the fundamental cornerstone techniques of Taoist inner alchemy, an unparalleled way to dissolve stress and liberate our latent energy. The inner smile is a deceptively simple but potentially life-altering practice, a precious lifelong spiritual gift.
The Microcosmic Orbit is a meditation practice in which you focus on circulating your life force through two of the most important energy channels in your body. These two channels, the Functional (Ren Mai), and the Governor, (Du Mai), connect in a flowing circle going up the spine, over the head, and down the front center of the body. The front and back channel are joined to form a circuit of continuous energy flow. This circuit is called the Microcosmic Orbit.
This is yin and yang in practice, connecting the masculine back channel and feminine front channel. Bringing your tongue to the roof of your mouth generates this conenction. Also referred to as the small heavenly cycle, this meditation allows you to increase, recycle, and store reservoirs of chi in an energy center in your abdomen called the lower "Dan Tien".
Your meditation is further enhanced by blending and supplementing your body's own energy with the energies of Nature, the Universal, Cosmic, and Earth Forces which surround us. This not only raises your 'vibration', but greatly increased resistance to stress and illness.
"By learning to tap the natural energies of the Sun, Moon,
Earth, Stars and environmental forces around us,
the practitioner attains the ability to develop
and nurture a solid spiritual body.
The ultimate goal of Taoist practice is
to transcend physical boundaries
through the development
of the soul and the spirit within man."
- Master Mantak Chia
The Microcosmic Orbit moves energy in a circular motion up the spine, over the head, down the front of the body, under the torso and up the spine again. At the end the energy is brought down to the dan tien at the naval area.
There are practical and tangible health benefits from opening the Microcosmic Orbit. The most evident is an increased resistence to illness and stress and an increase in overall energy levels due to conserving and recycling your life force energy. Less internal stress helps the immune system by promoting a freer flow of lymph fluids.
Fusion of the Five Elements 1
(Emotional Transformation)
The Fusion of the Five Elements meditation is the second level of Taoist meditation and begins the process of Inner Alchemy. In the Healing Tao system, following the Microcosmic Orbit Meditation, comes Taoist Fusion Inner Alchemy. Learning effective Fusion techniques brings harmony to your emotions, transforming the negative and affirming the positive virtues - the heart of spiritual work.
The result is improved energy and peace. Creating a harmonious environment internally, allows the spirit to stay alive and fully present. If you look around you you can see the five natural elements in your daily life. Wood, metal, fire, water amd earth. All of nature moves in cycles and interacts with eachother. In this way you'll see that all things of life are interdependant.
Transforming negative emotional energy in the vital organs of the body into positive qualities produce a more favorable quality of body chemistry and hormonal balance. This is inner alchemy, a highly refined process of inner change and quality of ones being.
When you Fuse Five Elements Chi into a "crystallized pearl of compassion", you circulate the pearl to purify and activate the Eight Extraordinary (Psychic) Channels. Learn to circulate higher frequencies of positive chi and activate energy flow in your three core channels. This powerful mind training may open psychic and healing energies. Fusion meditation is essential work for emotional balance.
In this practice of Taoist Internal Alchemy, you will learn to neutralize the negative emotions of worry, sadness, arrogance, anger and fear back into pure energy by anchoring the source of the emotions in the bodily organs, and establishing a balance through the Five Elements control cycle. The purified energy is crystallized into a radiant energy pearl within the inner cauldron. This pearl is then circulated through the Microcosmic Orbit, attracting to it the external Chi of the Three Forces: Heaven, Earth, and Cosmic Force. The formation and circulation of the pearl plays a pivotal role in the nourishment of the soul or energy body. Pre-requisite: Microcosmic Orbit Meditation
This profound Taoist esoteric internal alchemy will empower you to quickly reach a state of inner integrity and harmony.
(Prequisite: Microcosmic Orbit).